New OpenNTF Project: WebDAV for IBM Domino

Posted by Niklas Heidloff on February 6, 2013

Stephan Wissel has contributed a new
project on OpenNTF - WebDAV
for IBM Domino. The project contains
an extension to Domino to support access to attachments in NSFs via the
WebDAV protocol. This allows for example using Microsoft Word users to
open attachments, edit them and save them back without detaching them first.
Read more details in the documentation
and the specification.

Here is Stephan's description:

"Round-trip Editing Library for
Domino is built by the Lotus development team as an unsupported feature
to compliment Lotus Domino server. This feature enables developers to add
the capability for users to launch an attachment from Domino using their
native application, such as Microsoft Word, edit it in place, and save
it.

It is intended to enhance the way attachments
work in Domino. Instead of having to detach, edit locally, and re-attach,
this executable allows user to work with documents seamlessly from within
their Domino applications.

The library is currently implemented
as a set of libraries on the Domino server as well as an executable that
has to be installed at each individual's desktop/laptop."